If you color your hair (including you, if you have highlights!), you already know that keeping it in excellent condition is a challenge. Coloring can be harsh, even if one goes to excellent salons. Shu Uemura’s Art of Hair Color Lustre’s series is targeted to preserve color, deliver shine, and protect the hair from damage. I’ve been using the Color Lustre Sulfate-Free Brilliant Glaze Shampoo and Color Lustre Brilliant Glaze Conditioner for the past few weeks, and have experienced a noticeable improvement in shine, bounce, softness and smoothness. What’s not to love?

Shu Uemura’s Sulfate Free Brilliant Glaze Shampoo (10 oz. $48) is a lightweight, pearly liquid that cleans hair perfectly while leaving it soft and shiny. My hair felt clean, but never dry or stripped. It’s rare to find a shampoo that strikes this balance just right, and is also kind to color. I experienced no color fading. In fact, my color looked better than ever because the condition of my hair improved significantly.

This shampoo includes Musk Rose Oil, which has healing and nourishing properties. It also has Goji Berry Extract (a source of anti-oxidants) to protect color.

Like the shampoo, Shu’s Color Lustre adds Musk Rose Oil and Goji Berry Extract. The scent was quite similar to the shampoo. For both, I found that the scent didn’t last far beyond the treatment time and did not clash with my perfume. Overall, big love for both of these. It’s wonderful to see that Shu Uemura’s Art of Hair delivers so beautifully. Highly recommended.

I LOVE.LOVE.LOVE this conditioner. I buy it in multiples! (Have you tried “wonder worker”? At the holidays they do a box set sometimes, and that’s how I got it. I really like it!)

The shampoo is just “ok.” I don’t prefer sulfate free shampoos for my haircolor because literally all of them have ripped the red out (not even a joke.) They have to replace it with something, and usually what goes in is just as bad as the sulfate. This one is nice and creamy and doesn’t dry my hair out like most do, but just like all the others, the red is literally gone immediately after rinsing–to the point my hair is nearly bleached blonde after rinsing, so whatever the deal is with the substitution, permanent red dye does not play nicely with it–no matter what the dye line is. I just wait til the days before I am coloring again to use it. It makes a nice clarifying product lol

Amy do you know where I could find full ingredient lists for all Shu hair products? Would you happen to know if these two products that you’ve reviewed use phenoxyethanol, parabens, or methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone as preservatives? The last two unfortunately make my hair shed and seem to be the most popular in sulfate-free hair products. Thanks.